How to Install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VMware?

In this article, I am going to show you how to install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VMware Workstation on Windows 10. In the past, 48 hours Apple just announced the next version of Mac book’s operation system that is called by the name macOS Sierra at WWDC 2016. Well, this time also Apple has made their changes on the new version of macOS Sierra, like the very first one is that, after fifteen years, Apple has finally ditched the “OS X” moniker. All things old are new again, and the new operating system will just be called “macOS.” We don’t yet know if Sierra carries a “10.12” version number, but with developers getting their hands on the OS later today, we should soon have that question answered.

Apple’s Craig Federighi ran through a whole bunch of new features to be included in the revised operating system. He started by mentioning Continuity and Auto-Unlock, which now combine to let you seamlessly unlock a desktop or laptop Mac merely by bringing your Apple Watch close, using what Federighi described as “time-of-flight networking” to detect the watch’s proximity. It was unclear from the presentation whether or not this feature is an Apple Watch exclusive; Federighi did not explicitly say that Auto-Unlock would work with iOS devices.

Anyway, I’m not going to tell any more about the updates that Apple made in this WWDC 2016 because here you will learn how to install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VMware. If you want to see what’s new in macOS Sierra, iOS, watchOS and tvOS, then click here for more information and updates.

Install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VMware

Update: The Steps below works on macOS Sierra 10.12 Final Version the nearly released by Apple. (20 September)

Now there are several materials that you have to download from the links below.

Step #1. Extract macOS Sierra Image File

Once you have downloaded the macOS Sierra image file, then you must extract it via WinRAR or 7zip. To unzip the file, just right-click on file then choose “Extract Here.“ It’ll take some minutes to obtain so wait for a while, before moving to the next step.

Extract macOS Sierra Zip file

Step #2. Install VMware Workstation on Your PC

Get the VMware from the link above. Once you have downloaded the VMware player, then Install it on your Windows PC. To install VMware, just click on the setup then hit Next and Next. Finally, click “Finished.” If you have installed already, then that’s okay.

Step #3. Install Patch Tool for VMware

Open “Patch Tool” folder then navigate to win-install and Run as Administrator. It will install the patch file in the VMware player for macOS Sierra and older versions.

Install win-install file

Step #4. Create & Edit New Virtual Machine

#1. Now open VMware and click on “File>New Virtual Machine”(Ctrl+N) then select Typical(Recommended) and click Next.

Typical Configuration

#2. Choose “I will install the operating system later” and click Next.

Guest Operating System Installation

#3. Now select “Apple Mac OS X” from operating system list then select macOS 10.12 from version and click Next.

Select a Guest Operating System

#4. Name the virtual machine macOS Sierra then browse a location to install the VMX files and click Next.

Define Virtual Machine and Choose Path

#5. Don’t Specify the disk space just select Store virtual disk as a single file and click Next. Becuase we don’t need this; we will remove it later.

Specify Disk Capacity

#6. The VMX file for macOS Sierra has been created, so go ahead and click finish.

Step #6. Edit VMX File of macOS Sierra VM files

#1. Now navigate to macOS Sierra virtual machine files that you browsed and located in step 4,4. Then navigate to the VMware virtual machine(VMX) and open it with Notepad.

Edit Virtual Machine Code

#2. Scroll down to the end, and type (smc.version = “0”) then press Ctrl+S to save it.

Edit VMX File

Step #7. Play the Virtual Machine (macOS Sierra)

Open the macOS Sierra VM window then click Power on this virtual machine. When you played the VM, then it should take you to the next step setting up macOS Sierra in VMware.If no then you may miss any action or fail in any move, comment below and we will try our best for you.

Power on this virtual Machine

Step #8. Perform a Clean Installation of macOS Sierra

Now while installing macOS Sierra or El Capitan on VMware or VirtualBox then we don’t need to install that on separate disk because while editing the VM we choose the virtual disk type SATA, and this is the one and only way for now to install macOS Sierra or El Capitan on VMware or VirtualBox. So that’s why now in the very next step we have to perform a clean installation and to set up macOS Sierra.

#1. Choose your Country and click on Continue.

Select Your Country

#2. Pick a keyboard Layout and click on Continue.

Select your Keyboard

#3. Now choose your method to transfer information to this Mac and click on Continue.

Transfer Information to this Mac

#4.Enable location services and click on Continue.

Enable Location Services

#5. In this step, you have to Sign in with your Apple ID. If you have one, then create a free Apple ID to the article, how to create an Apple ID on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. If you don’t want to sign in with Apple ID or don’t want to create Apple ID, then Choose Don’t Sign in and Click on Continue.

Sign In with Your Apple ID

#6. Agree tothe Terms and Conditions.

Terms and Conditions

#7. Fill out the Full name, Account name, Password, Hint and check the box of Set time zone based on Current location. Then finally click on Continue to create your user account for Mac OS X El Capitan, which will be installed.

Create a Computer Account

#8. Select the options for Diagnostics & Usage and click on Continue.

Diagnostics & Usage

#9. Wait a little while to Setting Up Your Mac. Then it will run to the desktop of macOS Sierra.

Setting up Your Mac

Finish Installation of macOS Sierra

After performing a clean installation and Set upping your macOS Sierra then you should see your final result that, macOS Sierra has successfully installed on VMware.

For any kinds of error while installing Mac OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra visit this article.

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mike

Hi, i also have problem with the patch tool. running windows 10/64 with VMw Workstation 12. When i click on the patch tool and select run as admin, it asks for admin passwd, and after i enter the passwd, a screen “flashes by” and nothing happens… Any ideas ?, thank you

Stephen Lanclos

Hello Dear Stephen Lanclos Go to File Explorer and navigate to the macOS Sierra Virtual Machine (VM) VMware files and right click on the VMware virtual machine (VMX) file and open it with notepad. Then scroll down to the end and type ( smc.version = 0 ) command and press Ctrl+S to save it and after that once Restart your computer (PC) and after restarting, play the macOS Sierra VM and it should work. If didn’t then let us know.

Recommended Path is desktop and that’s not compulsory. If you don’t seen Apple OS X it means that have not run “win-install” as administrator. You might have run simple. You must run as administrator. Good luck!

June 20, 2016

Adrian

VMWare tools won’t install. I restarted but I still can’t change my display or open apps from anyone.

That’s nice, but if you click on the full-screen button, it will also fix the resolution.

March 21, 2017

Edouard

Hello Mukhtar,

Thanks again for this tutorial, I tried it after having problems with screen size on virtual box with El Capitan. Here with sierra on VMWare the size of the screen is great !

One thing though: I tried to use the command line to authorise the installation of plugin from unidentified developer. I use a sudo command and it ask me for a password. It does not work when I input the password I use to open my session.

To allow unidentified developers, you can go to Apple icon and select System Preferences > Security & privacy and then select enter your password manualy then allow the installation of software from “Everywhere“.

June 22, 2016

Edouard

Thanks for the fast answer!

Hum..nope it does not work, I do not have a ‘enter your password manually’ field but there are checkboxes which are inactive. When I try to input a password, whether for changing my password or when I click on the ‘click the lock to make changes’ it ask me for a password and the one used to open my session does not work…

Ed

Thx, it worked ! Yet it’s still not clear about admin password. On my old account I tried to change my password and I checked that my old password was correct in the password hint, it was, yet it gives me the message ‘the password is incorrect’. Conclusion: – sierra on vmware with the above tutorial: session password admin password (even if profile is indicated as admin) – sierra on wmware then setting a new account with http://www.wikigain.com/reset-forgotten-macos-sierra-password/: session password == admin password

June 24, 2016

Rafael Botelho

sgg3

I followed the instructions exactly but when the VM boots, instead of install macOS Sierra, I get an error EFI VMware Virtual SATA Hard Disk…unseccessful. Then it goes to a setup screen and will not move forward. Did I miss a step?

Mills

zaher

Hello ! Wiki Gain I have problem on powring on the MAC OS X 10.12 Sierra.vmdk when I click the play vitual machine it shows me this error ” Error while powering on: Unable to open file “D:\soft\vmware\mac disk\OS X 10.11 .vmdk”:

Hi Mukhtar Jafari you are right i watched video but I think you didn’t mention one simple point ! 🙂 The point is you have to right click on “MAC OS X 10.12 Sierra.vmdk” and click the properties and in the first tab [General] / Attributes section Uncheck Read-only

Michael Bear

I don’t get it. All these ‘how to’ pages for Sierra OS on VMWare (including this one) supposedly offer a link to download the Sierra .iso image on Google Drive, but when you go there, all there is is a text file, saying, ‘Stay updated here!’ but, no image anything to download.

Lovepreet Singh

Hello … I installed the mac os x as written in the blog. but when i turn on the vm i get error message “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.” … I am using windows 10, vmware workstation 12. I hav a amd a8 processor. The laptop is samsung ultrabook. Its in tripple boot already.. Though i m installing mac os x in vmware windows 10 only. I have unlocked the vmware using the unlocker you provided.. i searched for a fix for this error but wasnt able to find one.. Please help me out.. everytime i try to install mac os x versions i get this type of error.

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Royce

I have tried to run mac OS X 10.12 sierra few times, but everytime when its booting on apple logo, it shows me lines of codes and some part of it says “thread 0 crashed”,”debugger called panic” and https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0ypAJal2M9LN1ZhSklObmM2Vnc is the link for the screenshot of it please help

Jorge

Hi, Thanks a lot for your tutorial, this version is the last version of macOS Sierra?, another question, when I enter in AppStore I have a ICON to download the macOS Sierra, I can do that ? if i do it, the MV going to fail?

DadBigFoot

DadBigFoot

However, when I try to boot up the machine it tells me “Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error” I set smc.version to “0” and i have the same number of processors and cores I have available on my laptop. Is there any way to fix this?

Ghassan

Every time I try to start the machine it gives me this error: “Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error” It worked once, but got stuck at ~75% at the apple logo at the very beginning, so I shut it down by force. I am on Ubuntu Linux with VMWare 12.5 and intel Core 17-5500 @ 2.4GHz

Maurizio

Hello dear, Make you sure that you didn’t miss any step. Try once again step by step with the help of article below. If your system is AMD then i am sorry mostly AMD isn’t working with macOS Sierra or El Capitan.

Amir

I am sorry for that but it mostly has problem with AMD based Laptop or desktop. May I know what’s yours?

October 11, 2016

Joe

I am using VMware Pro 12.5 and after installing patch tool with admin rights I don’t have the option to chose Apple OS, step #3. I tried restarting and running Patch tool few times. Can anyone pls help.

Hi dear Joe, Enable Virtual Technology from your system BIOS then give another try. Good luck!

October 13, 2016

Joe

Thank you for your reply, but that is not t the case. I am using VMware for 5 years now and have two systems installed with VMWare workstation pro. Both systems do not give me options to install Apple OS. I done another fresh install on third system yesterday, same thing…

I suggest you, install VMware tools again and use the updated file. While inserting the USB in your Computer make you sure that you are out of Windows and working in the macOS Sierra Virtual Machine because when you insert it open the USB in Windows, not Mac OS.

Abdullah

hey all, First i wanna thank the author of this article for his great effort. second, i just wanted to say that in step 6,2, i had an issue which the mac OS couldn’t be powered on, so i replaced this mark “” with this mark ” in this command: smc.version = “0” and it worked for me.

Doesn’t matter just take it and install the macOS Sierra. There you’ll not see because the vmware doesn’t update the vmware yet

October 24, 2016

Wilson

Hi, Glad I came across this nice clear tutorial. I already had everything running on VMware 10 , El Capitan. I upgraded to Sierra and now running in VMware 12. However, under display settings it says; “3D acceleration is not supported in this guest Operating system.” I didn’t notice that in VMware 10. Im using DirectX 11, The VMware tools from included link above. Using Asus motherboard with Onboard Intel Video chipset.

Kashif ali

Dear Sir, I install VMware 12 pro on my laptop(lenovoG480, Corei5 and 8GB ram). When I im trying to create new virtual machine, after that i have to select the MACos, so this option is not available . can you guide how i am able to install Mac

Eric

During installation in vmware, after the apple logo appears, it loads for a while then it just displays a blank gray screen. It doesnt take me to the option of clean installation. What could be my problem?

Welcome dear, This time, go to File Explorer and navigate to the macOS Sierra Virtual Machine (VM) VMware files and right click on the VMware virtual machine (VMX) file and open it with notepad. Then scroll down to the end and type ( smc.version = 0 or smc.version = “0” ) command and press Ctrl+S to save it and after that once Restart your computer (PC) and after restarting, play the macOS Sierra VM and it should work. If didn’t then let us know.

November 3, 2016

Venkey

Oops… It’s showing “booth manager”

I installed Sierra on virtualbox, it’s works great but missing fluidity.

I need a bootable bootable USB of Sierra. Is there any options other then VMware?

I’m using win10 and would like to run Sierra as my main OS. Let me know the possibilities. Thanks in advance.

could see why my tool did not work on my computer. Windows10 stores the user name in unicode. This tool does not work with gettools.exe if the user name is unsi, not ansi.

Also, if .Net Framework does not exist, you need to run the 2.0.4 version first.

November 21, 2016

Bob Jones

Did you find a solution to this? I’m getting an error when running win-install.cmd that says “failed to get ANSI buffer size(WideChartoMultiByte: The parameter is incorrect.)Failed to convert progname to wchar_t. Please help!

Hello Sir, Very informative tutorial. But I’m still not getting Mac Os in the option, I runned the win-install.cmd file as administrator but nothing happened, also when I check the tools folder in the same directory it was empty but before running the .cmd file there were some files. I also reinstalled VmWare but nothing shows up, Please Help..

You’ve done anything wrong. You might have mistakenly deleted any file from the source. If you have focused on code, it’s saying the Thread 0 crashed. It means that there is not any file in the Virtual Machine source.

November 15, 2016

Sino

Is there anyway i can fix it? Because i have installed it recently and 2 more times for a fresh one but i keep receiving the same error. What is the best possible solution ?

November 16, 2016

solarisx

Hi, i had a working vmware image build on this tutorial. Since today it does not start. I get “DSMOS: SMC returned incorrect key: ….” I tried smc.version=”0″, smc.version=’0′ and smc.version=0 in the .vmx file. Neither worked. What else can I do to fix this?

Ruchi

I have the same problem but on a laptop. What do I do?

March 15, 2017

Ruchi

Does the patch from the link you posted above work for laptops too?

March 16, 2017

Ruchi

No Worries, I fixed it. Just before the os x reboots, hold ‘command’ + ‘option’ (alt) + ‘P’ + ‘R’ keys. It will reset the NVRAM and remove the recent kernel panic information. And just like that, the os x boots again without getting into a reboot loop caused by the kernel panic.

Adrian Marvel

Hello, i need some help here i follow every step but in my laptop appear error like this “Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports Intel VT-x or AMD-V.” any help please

Waliullah

Sir I’ve downloaded the files from the link “Download macOS Sierra Final (7 Parts)”, Now after unzipping the first part successfully when I am unzipping the second part it is showing a Confirm File Replace window stating “would you like to replace the existing files with this one”

kindly check the links I guess they have same files on part 1 and others

Don’t extract each part. Just right-click on part one then extract it. It’ll take out all the other 6 parts in one file. You don’t need to do this work on all parts.

November 21, 2016

Gary

I installed and can run macOS 10.12.1 on both VirtualBox and VMware under my Windows 10 Pro Lenovo Yoga 910 which has a 13.9” touch screen at a dense 3840 x 2160, all with the latest updates. They treat the display differently with the VirtualBox only allowing 1024 x 768 display which I scale to 200% but would like the window bigger but it is legible. The VMware does not allow the macOS to scale so it is a very small font regardless of the window size, which I can auto size after installing the toolbox. The only way I can scale the macOS display is using Windows Settings to change the default 3840 x 2160 to something like 1920 x 1200 which of course effects all my apps. Are you aware of a way to get macOS Display Resolution to list several scaled screen sizes like it would with a physical display? It is just giving one resolution which varies with the size of the VM Window but all produce the very same small font. Even changing the Finder font option to the max is too small and that only effects Finder windows. Thanks – Gary

SUHAIL

That’s because you have not run win-install to enable that option. Navigate to the patch tool folder then right-click on Win-Install and select run as administrator. Restart your Virtual Machine then you will see that option. Good luck!

November 26, 2016

Virendra Ravalji

Thanks for this proper and detailed explained tutorial. Very good. Worked for me.

Garrett

Wilson

Ok, this has been asked many times without a clear answear, but will ask again. Using VMware 12 VMware settings – Display – 3D “3D acceleration is not supported in this guest Operating system.” I don’t have this problem with Linux , etc..and did not have this problem with earlier release of VMware. Anyone?

December 7, 2016

Wilson

I already had everything running on VMware 10 , El Capitan. I upgraded to Sierra and now running in VMware 12. However, under display settings it says; “3D acceleration is not supported in this guest Operating system.” I didn’t notice that in VMware 10. Im using DirectX 11, The VMware tools from included link above. Using Asus motherboard with Onboard Intel Video chipset.

December 7, 2016

Jens Eckervogt

Hello dear wikigran thanks for preinstalled hardisk – I would like create virtual hardisk how do I know?? Create new hard disk and my hard disk name than and connect and start disk utility and erase 2. hard disk and copy from apple store fresh Image Sierra 10.12 into my own hard disk and i install fresh my mac os 10.12 than it is my own right and never i get “hard disk name of your” because it sees illegal. that is why i create own. Thanks for support I am very happy because my new computer works with VMWare Player 12.5.2 with unlocker 2.08 and sierra hardisk

Huzeifa Chothia

That need a serial Number to work properly. Did you install VMware Tools?

December 19, 2016

Huzeifa Chothia

I installed vm tools but still not working

December 19, 2016

Wilson

Am I the only one seeing this? 3D Hardware not supported ni Guest I already had everything running on VMware 10 , El Capitan. I upgraded to Sierra and now running in VMware 12. However, under display settings it says; “3D acceleration is not supported in this guest Operating system.” I didn’t notice that in VMware 10. Im using DirectX 11, The VMware tools from included link above. Using Asus motherboard with Onboard Intel Video chipset.

December 19, 2016

Jens Eckervogt

Wilson, why do you not make fresh ISO Sierra image ? Yesterday my brother has Mac book from his company and has made own bootable Sierra image ( *.ISO ) if I want upload whole image than they can install own Mac because I have downloaded your VMware hard disk image and it has failures like trash is not showing on dockbar and forgotten apps are not installed just hard disk of Wilson sees mess up – I will release soon. Step to step for ISO but not allowed to use and processors! Thanks!

My brother has upgraded from El Capitan to Sierra and upgrading installation of his Mac book takes while longer just 20 minutes huhu! I ask my brother why does he not use cleaning utility like clean my Mac or beamoff than it will fix faster.

Thanks for allowing my suggestion!

December 19, 2016

Wilson

But I had one clear question.

Does anyone else on VMWare VERSION 12, have this problem with El Capitan? Not sure if anyone else with VMware 12 is seeing this or not.

December 19, 2016

Jens Eckervogt

It is okay! I mean VMWare Player 12.5 I use only from your downloaded hard disk image for VMware player . I have downloaded manuell from Apple Store Sierra DVD and my brother helps me to create image for Sierra 10.12 and I tested VirtualBox and i try fresh installation of Sierra to VirtualBox and after Installation I see Mac desktop and I saw because trash symbol is here on dockbar. That’s why from your hard disk image for VMware player was not clean because trash symbol is not showing on dockbar. I caught that. I will upload now Sierra image ( ISO ) over 8 GB via mega.nz if my upload is completed than I will give you link.

You said. Upgrading from El Capitan from laptop Mac book of my brother: he has upgraded from El Capitan to Sierra but laptop of my brother was slow if installation took over than 15 minutes – black screen with white apple symbol. I see because my new computer is very faster than Mac book of my brother. That’s why! Thanks! I hope you understand me correctly?

Yes dear, That’s right we have also that error message but that’s not important because after installing VMWare tools all work perfectly fine.

December 19, 2016

Jens Eckervogt

Hello I would like happy new year 2017 sorry I am busy because my birthday and christmas – I am now here Link from mega.nz sierra.7z 4.8 gb compressed. Download https://mega.nz/#!ExQxhRiC!758zaBJLHtXgWAf6S9jjgGT-laF6Aey1PXXPUqruRbo You can download my compressed fresh image if you use virtual dvd and vmware player Thanks for waiting me… January 1, 2017

Jens Eckervogt

Wilson

Sorry, I meant OSX Sierra

December 19, 2016

Tim

Hi! When I try to power on the virtual machine. It starts and the apple logo appears but then I get an error saying: “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.” Could you please help me! Thanks!

AlphaGeekV2

After couple hours to try to make iMessage works I’m getting a validation code and a message telling me to contact Apple Support. But my serial doesn’t seem to be valid… Anyone who has it working can tell us step by step what he did? Thanks!

Martynas

Hi, im trying to install but i always get “A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state. If this fault had occurred outside of a virtual machine, it would have caused the physical machine to restart. The shutdown state can be reached by incorrectly configuring the virtual machine, a bug in the guest operating system, or a problem in VMware Player.”. Im including my system info here http://www.mediafire.com/file/f3343tdyq24m7ar/DxDiag.txt Thanks 🙂

mahdi

You’ve have read step #6 carefully. All the necessary point is mentioned there. But again I will help you here as well. The file is not bulky it’s around 2 KB. Just right click on macOS Sierra.VMX file then open with notepad.

January 1, 2017

Murat

I use VMware Workstation 12 Player and I installed without a problem. VM Player is free if you do not use it for commercial purposes.

My question is can we use the software updater of macOS to update OS and other files?

January 1, 2017

Murat

I answer this by trying myself. Yes it works. I updated successfully to to 10.12.2.

Jens Eckervogt

Hello dear users, I have uploaded compressed image sierraOS and It is fresh installation if You want install fresh your own Mac OS 10.12 you can check my last new comment thanks! I would like you are happy to install with fresh sierraOS. Thanks! For me works fine 100 %

than you can start vmware player just wait for until Sierra os installation and make sure your hard disk is fresh formated from vmware hard disk ( do not dvd hard disk. okay

Than yoiu wait for 15 minutes until finish wait until Mac OS X is fresh and installed.. Thanks for explanation I hope my alternative iso for you if you want create custom sierra and fresh mac os

January 1, 2017

mahdi

hi I do all steps but when I power on the virtual machine but confronted with this error: { VMware workstation unrecoverable error : (vcpu-0) vcpu-0:VERIFY vmcore/vmm/main/physMem_monitor.c:1180 A log file is available in “D:\macOS Sierra\vmware.log” You can request support. To collect data to submit to VMware support,choose “collect support Data”from help menu. you can also run the “vm-support” script in the Workstation folder directly. We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement. what do I do?

You can edit the VMX file in two ways. with Quotation and without Quotation. (smc.version = “0”) or (smc.version = 0)

January 4, 2017

Hasan

Hi, i followed your video instruction and install the patch tool with administration but if i open my vmware and create a new virtual machine it still shows me not the Apple Mac OS X I downloaded the patch tool from your site Hope your can help me

Will

I easily got Sierra running using these instructions, however I am trying to install programs such as iMovie and it’s not letting me due to having an insufficient video card. How can I enable more than 128MB of NVRAM for the video card or pass through the 3D acceleration?

Cool Charac

would macOS guest (setting up as above) run properly if the host has an NVIDIA card? I’m planning to buy a windows10 laptop for this, but I’ve heard linux systems with (proprietary) NVIDIA driver outright not booting: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=50884&sid=35c4a9745bac0f709e1f59fa0b876a25&start=10#p216341 , and Pascal cards may not work with macs: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/frequently-asked-questions-about-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/ , which will be a problem when vendors change their GPUs to that. I hope they do run. BTW something’s wrong with the subscription confirmation thing – This is the third time I tried posting this, confirmed the mail and followed link, but my post is still not here. Do I have to make a WordPress account or something?

January 13, 2017

Cool Charac

OK I *just* found this comments link, sorry for all those posts, I feel so embarrassed. 🙁 Is there a way to remove the last two posts I made?

January 13, 2017

Weijia

I was stuck with the logo, when I run it, there shows the message that I can’t get access to the virtual device sata 0:1, because there is no corresponding devices on the host and also the message that the client has disabled CPU， please shut down or reset the virtual machine, then I was stuck with the logo. How can I solve this problem?

atakan

Ari

Thanks for the great tutorial. Two problems: 1. When I create a new VM, apple mac os is not one of the options. I had to pick “other”. Is that an issue? 2. After I did all the steps, I start the VM and it is only a black screen saying “operating system not found. thanks.

Install win-install from the patch tool folder. And navigate to the step #3 of this tutorial.

January 16, 2017

Jim

When I run it… it loads up the Apple loading screen and gets to about 90% and then sits there. I have let it sit for an hour. I have another Mac product that is older and slower than my PC… I don’t believe it should take this long.

I have uninstalled and redone everything above 3 times now. Any ideas? I have done the “0” and 0 versions of the smc change.

Thoughts?

January 16, 2017

Jim

I can’t seem to post in this comments section – I have tried twice already.

My issue: I get to the Apple logo and it loads up to about 90% complete. It takes about 5 minutes to arrive at 90%. I just let it run overnight and came to a screen that was still at 90%.

I have followed the instructions above numerous times now (over 5 at this point). The first attempt was on a fresh installation of Windows 10. I have read through all of the comments and tips that have been posted and none of those have helped so far.

Anyone else run into this? I have tried VMWare Workstation Player and Pro. I have the latest versions installed. I ran the patch. I have done restarts at every stage and none at every stage. I have done additional searches and adjustments.

Luis Pinto

Diego Arenas

I followed all of the instructions and it works, but whenever it tries to boot up i get an error. it says “The firmware encountered an unexpected exception. The virtual machine cannot boot.” How can i fix this?

chaitanya

chaitanya

yes i follow all the steps, but finally i am seeing apple logo from one hr , it is not loading anything just apple logo

February 9, 2017

Sneh Patel

When I Power On the Virtual Machine, an error occur saying “Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports Intel VT-x or AMD-V.” Any Solution?

chaitanya

yes i enabled …

February 9, 2017

Sneh Patel

When I Power On the Virtual Machine, an error occur saying “Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports Intel VT-x or AMD-V.” Any Solution? plzz help!

moin

3d acceleration is not supported in the guest operation system when I want to enable it ! what should i do? I installed the vm tools enable the virtualisation in the bios every thing working great but the only problem is this graphical issue !

moin

3d acceleration is not supported in the guest operation system when I want to enable it ! what should i do? I installed the vm tools enable the virtualisation in the bios every thing working great but the only problem is this graphical issue ! using asus n56 with intel HD 4600 and gtx760m

moin

what is the primary reason for this issue? should it be uncompatible hardware ! or bugs and compatibility graphical issue in newest version of vmware? I could not use garageband and other apps that need a little bit media decoding I cant even watch a video ! I also downloaded el captain 10.11 and try that but again 3D acceleration could not be supported by the guest OS error ! by the way th vm tools could not be install by the vm itself It tell me that could not find the update file on the vm server and I installed it manually by the dmg file ! I download a big 165mb file from vm site vm tools for windows mac and linux inside there is only one file to install and that is Darwin ! What is the different between darwin and vmtools ? which one is better and what they are? should I try to use linux ? do you thing the issue will be solved in linux or not? Im using windows 8.1 x64 now on asus n56jr جناب جعفری خیلی خیلی ارادت مندیم قربان!

February 19, 2017

Armin

Thank you. Great work!!! Works perfectly. Ran to some issues, but using the help you provided, I managed to resolve them.

Adrian

I have a problem after power on the machine, when I do it a gray screen appears which says that is unsuccessful to start up from EFI VMware virtual SATA Hard Drive and from the EFI VMware virtual SATA CDROM Drive, and then only appears the Boot Manager, what can I do?

Heracles

Andrew

Hello, i installed osx on WIN7 via virtualbox but i had some little lags and a slow work, problems with sound when watchin videos (sound lags behind). Then i tried installation on WIN10 via vmware, but all of this still present. Have configured vm on 4 cores, 4gb RAM… So that is a kind of “normal”. Does anybody have a fully preformance work like on a native MAC?

J.P.M.I

When playing the VM (followed all the previous instructions) i get this error on the bottom right of the screen: ‘Unable to process CD-ROM device ‘G:”: The system cannot find the path specified; Virtual device ‘sata0:1′ will start disconnected’ and there’s no drive ‘G:’ on my pc then shortly after the apple logo this error pops up: ‘The firmware encountered an unexpected exception. The virtual machine cannot boot.’ Then after I press ‘OK’ VMware closes…please help

J.P.M.I

You can follow the same steps for AMD also. Virtualization Technology (VT) should be enabled from BIOS. If didn’t work then it’s not compatible. macOS can’t be run on such AMD Based system. Also, macOS is compatible with Some AMD system.

March 21, 2017

ishan

hello i followed all the steps correctly but at last i am getting following error

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)

vcpu-0:VERIFY vmcore/vmm/main/physMem_monitor.c:1180

A log file is available in “C:\Users\ishan\Documents\Virtual Machines\macOS 10.12 (2)\vmware.log”.

You can request support.

To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose “Collect Support Data” from the Help menu.

You can also run the “vm-support” script in the Workstation folder directly.

after i uninstalled vmware and reinstalled it after couple of days nomatter what i do evern create new vm and use patch tools osx isnt booting black screen and reboot after completing apple logo progress whats this all about?

taehoon Kim

Hello, I have thinkpad X1 5th generation laptop with i7 7500 cpu. also I can see the error messages as below on VM ware 12.5 Please support for me. Thank you.

1. Binary translation is incompatible with long mode on this platform. Long mode will be disabled in this virtual environment and applications requiring long mode will not function properly as a result. See http://vmware.com/info?id=152 for more details. 2. Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports Intel VT-x or AMD-V.

faisal

This file will be created after you create virtual machine Navigate to the location that you created the virtual machine You can find .vmx file

March 31, 2017

JM Stenger

Hi Mukhtar I have Loaded VMWare Workstation Pro 12.1.1 When I try to run ../Patch Tools/Unlocker2.0.8/win-install.cmd in cmd window as administrator. The three files get copied to backup, and then in the logflie the python script gets to vmwarebase.dll to GOS Patching and fails with message. IOError: [Errno 13] Permission Denied:u’C;\\Program Files….\vmwarebase.dll’ Returned -1

Have you got any tips? (I also updated VMware Workstn Pro to 12.5.5 and got same result)

Hugo

Hi guys,

you are doing a great job, I get the error: “DSMOS: SMC returned incorrect key …. DontStealMcOs”

I changes smc.version = 0 I followed your tutorial but still the same problem, endless loop of trying to boot. I’m using vmware, I’m using an Intel i7-3770K, Windows 10 64 bit, 16 GB Ram, more then a Terrabyte. PLEAS help me 🙁

Maudavid

Vipul dave

Hello wikigain i am facing the problem that when i start booting the mac it only shows blank screen and when i go back to the folder where the file is being stored the file automatically get deleted i don’t know the why its happening and i am facing same problem on my another laptop also currently i am working on windows 10

KURODA Hisao

HI, I tried whole on my Suface Pro 4, and encountered a popup says “Cannot connect virtual device sata:1 because no corresponding device is available on the host”. I choose both “Yes” and “No” for that popup, then VMWare says “Vmware Virtual SATA Hard Drive (0,0) …. unsuccessful” and go to boot manager. What am I missing?

April 10, 2017

KURODA Hisao

Sorry, that was my fault. I did not do right on #8. Now I see MacOS screen. Thank you very much. BTW, the screen resolution looks very poor, and VMWare does not permit me to do “View – Fit Guest Now” operation. Any tips for the issue? Thanks again.

Roy

Melissa

Thank you for this work, it is really great.

I just noticed that when I added the smc.version = “0” instruction to the VMX file, I couldn’t run the VM so I just jumped that step. I was able to completely configure and run the macOS without that and after all I open the file again and the line was already there.

Thank you, I just wanted to add this in case finds it helpful in someway.

It seems it’s because of your CPU. Some AMD CPU aren’t compatible with macOS try to install on Intel based CPU.

May 25, 2017

Facundo Acosta

Hello, good afternoon … I did all the procedures correctly but at the moment of starting the virtual machine, I throw an error when starting loading the OS X … The error I leave in the following links …

Ian Stockdale

I’m running windows 10 64 with VM player 12 and have tried to get Sierra running for days. Followed instructions to the letter but just keep getting the same error “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.” El Capitan runs fine, never had a problem.

michel

since today i get this message when i try to start the vm

VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible. VMware Workstation can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard. Please visit http://www.vmware.com/go/turnoff_CG_DG for more detail

Try this step again then the problem will solve: Step #6. Edit VMX File of macOS Sierra VM files

June 14, 2017

Ian Stockdale

Thanks, it is enabled, hence I can run El Capitan under VM and XP / Ubantu under Virtualbox.

June 14, 2017

Ric

Did anyone find a solution for the kernel panic mentioned above? Thanks

June 14, 2017

Ian Stockdale

Ric, I can’t find any solutions anywhere. El Capitan seems easy, it’s very frustrating to watch loads of you tube videos where everyone else on the planet can get Sierra up and running in VM & VB. Also tried Sierra in VirtualBox but get repeated reboot loop or ‘wise guru’.

June 15, 2017

michel

when i tried to change the vmx file it says it is corrupted after change.. i went and tried the virtalbox version and that one worked. need to find a copy/paste option.. in virtualbox in vmware it worked. now i use dropbox..

cm

Raul

Hello, It´s not working in VMWARE ESXI 5.1, i make install Mac sierra (follow instruction)from vmware workstation 12 and did export virtual machine to ESXI 5.1 but when start VM using Vsphere nothing happens.

David

If you are on Mac OS X El Capitan or lower version, just right click on the desktop and select change desktop background. This will open up preferences. Under the Random order, you see the transparent menu bar. Tick mark it. If you are on macOS Sierra or High Sierra you can only enable dark mode for the menu bar. To enable dark menu bar, Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click General then select “Use dark menu bar and Dock.”

August 10, 2017

Phil

When I start the VM it says no boot filename received. Note, I didn’t install VM 12 pro, just VM 12 workstation.